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Last Thursday, hundreds of photographers and the people who love them converged on Canoe Studios, a 24,000 square foot loft space in the Starrett-Lehigh Building (hi, Martha!), for a community-style potluck dinner and slideshow. Not just any slideshow, mind you – the organizers of non-profit group Slideluck Potshow gather 25 emerging and established photogs to display their latest, this year ranging from celebrity portraits by Platon to architectural landscapes by Aperture‘s Michael Wolf.
Recently listed by AllDayBuffet as one of the New York 100, a list of innovative organizations working to break the model and institute change in their respective fields, Slideluck Potshow is the brainchild of photographer Casey Kelbaugh, who founded the group in 2000 as a platform for sharing work in a supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. Now organizing events in over forty cities worldwide from Stockholm to Sao Paolo with the help of co-director Alys Kenny, the 501(c)3 is moving into new realms of community outreach with the Student Youth Initiative, an after-school course aimed at middle- and high- schoolers in the New York area.
Last week’s slideshow presented a varied look at contemporary photography, combining intimate portraiture with slickly produced commercial work and art house ephemera with wartime documentary. Yancey Richardson’s Alex Prager shoots retro-fitted females with aggressive, cinematic lighting, much like cropped versions of Gregory Crewdson‘s vivid domesticated settings. Jing Quek‘s saturated, hyperrealistic photos of Singapore groups – diving team, school classroom, government, production crew – are staged to reveal the artifice behind the planning of such a shot, creating a hilarious tableau of pictorial folly. Two other notables were Michael Wolf of Aperture, whose linear images of New York architecture from the “Transparent City” series were displayed in tandem with a moving Devotchka track, and Emily Schiffer, whose spooky, obsessively produced black and white images depict children on the cusp of adolescence, caught acting within their own private worlds.
Keep up with Slideluck Potshow via blog, and learn how you can support its mission here.
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[...] I shot for Slideluck Potshow last week at Canoe Studios – some of the photos are up here. [...]
[...] Slideluck Potshow united the photography community at Canoe Studios last week in New York City for a unique evening with a potluck-style dinner followed by a showcase of artist’s photographic slideshows. Both emerging and established artists were represented, including Aperture’s Michael Wolf and his series The Transparent City, which takes an in depth look at the environment and its inhabitants of urban Chicago as well as Aperture’s Brian Ulrich, showing his newest series Dark Stores. The non-profit organization, Slideluck Potshow is devoted to building and strengthening community around food and art. In addition, it is their objective to promote public appreciation of the visual arts and to provide art education opportunities to school-age children in New York City. Slideshow events are now taking place in about forty cities globally: from Stockholm, to São Paulo, to San Francisco. Read the Flavorwire report on the event here. [...]
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